A Syntactic Analysis of Instrumental Prepositional Phrases
This paper deals with those Catalan and Spanish Prepositional Phrases (PP), introduced by the prepositions amb (Catalan) - con (Spanish), that designate the instrument used to carry out the action expressed by the verb. I analyse them as a small clause that has a dyadic predicate: the preposition. I...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2001 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:2232 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/2232 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Instrumental PP Comitative PP SP Instrumental SP Comitatiu |
| Sumario: | This paper deals with those Catalan and Spanish Prepositional Phrases (PP), introduced by the prepositions amb (Catalan) - con (Spanish), that designate the instrument used to carry out the action expressed by the verb. I analyse them as a small clause that has a dyadic predicate: the preposition. I propose that the Instrumental PP forms an independent derivation that must merge with a verbal syntactic derivation in order to get licensed. Finally, I suggest that the minimalist analysis I propose for Instrumental PP can be extended to some Comitative PP. |
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